Improvement in combined step-ladders, benches, and clothes-frames



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' Combined Step-Ladders,` Benches, and GIothes-Frames.

No, 145,716, Patented Dec. 23,1873.

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Combined Step-Ladders, Benches, and-GIothes-Frames. No. 145,716. Patented [366.2351873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGEo HAVILAH H. BABKER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED STEPLADDERS, BENCHES, AND CLOTHES-FRAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,716, dated December 23, 1873 application filed November 3, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAVTLAH H. BARKER, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improved Combined Step-Ladder, Bench, and

Clothes-Frame, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 is a view of the at side of the same folded up. Fig. 2 is an edge view. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same expanded into a washform. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the same expanded into a double ladder. Fig.,5 is an edge or side lview of the same adjusted as an extension-ladder. Fi g. 6 is a perspective view of the same expanded into a clothes-horse.

The letters a a1 a2 denote a ladder-frame, and the letters b b1 b2 another ladder-frame. To one end of the former are pivoted the two legs c c1, having cross-rounds o2, and to the other end of the same frame are pivoted the legs d 'd'. To one end of the ladder-frame b b1 b2 the legs e el, having cross-rounds e2, are pivoted, and to the other end of the same frame the legs f f are pivoted. The ends oi' the legs c and e are hinged together; also, the ends of the legs e el; also, the ends ofthe legs df, and also the ends of the legs d f. When the two frames and the legs are folded together, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the whole thing is in very compact form for stowage or transportation. It can be locked in this position of adjustment by wire pins i t running, through the ears s s fastened to the frame-sides b b1, into the frame-sides a a1.

By sliding the frame b bl b2 endwise upon the frame a a1 a2, as shown in Fig. 3, the legs are thrown downward, so as to transform the device into a convenient bench or wash-form, the height of which is regulated by the distance the two frames are moved endwise upon each other. The frames are locked at the desired point by the pins M running through the ears s s.

By throwing those ends of the two frames on which are the legs d d ff apart till these sets of legs form straight lines, While the other ends converge toward each other, as shown in.

Fig. 4, a double ladder is formed, the length of which can be extended by locking the legs c cl to the frame-sides a a1 by means of pins o o, and similarly locking the legs c c1 to the framesides b b.

By sliding the two frames endwise upon each other as far as they will go, as shown in Fig. 5, an extension-ladder is formed, and the two. frames are locked by the pins 1l e' running through the ears s s.

By pulling the two frames apart till all the sets of legs lie in straight lines, as shown in Fig. 6, a clothes-horse is formed.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the frame a al a2, provided with the pivoted legs c c1 d d', with the frame b b1 b2, having the legs e cl f j" pivoted thereto, the corresponding sets of legs upon the two frames being hinged together, the whole constructed, arranged, and designed for operation and use, substantially as hereinbe fore set forth.

HAVILAH H. BARKER.

Witnesses WM. EDGAR SIMoNDs, S. J. SIMONDS. 

